If the guy had a weapon then the cop is justified in shooting him. I don't see a problem with how many shots he fired. You never know how you would react unless you are actually there with the adrenaline pumping through your veins.

At the moment these things with civilian people, at such a big scale, could only happen in one country in the world... It just looks awful and unbelievable - the guy is in his backyard, his mom parks a car, the guy gets out of the car... obviously, as most people in his case he wants to run into his house to hide from police, his wife and children are waiting for the husband in the house... but the husband gets ten bullets in his body... I am surprised the cop didn't shoot the man's wife, although as you see in the video he considered about it for a second... had it been in the dark and not in people's own backyard the wife would have been shot as well.

The man behaved suspiciously, we all do, especially in those stressful situations... but it was miles away from any threatening behavior, and if it looked threatening then a cop should have hidden behind his car and kept giving commands until he becomes sure about the situation and man's intentions... You can punch someone in the face and then say sorry, you can use electro shock and then say sorry... but here a lethal weapon is being used, now you cannot wake the husband and father up... The only justification for this murder would be if the man have just killed someone in front of police and still has a gun in his hands.

The states's law should control cops' behavior.... it's hard to blame the cop, he is just human being and reacts according to the training he has been given, and police practices used in the country, the cop knows, he will not get sentenced for killing when he is on his duty, and for him is much better to kill earlier than to wait and might possibly face a dangerous threat later.

Ct. Rockula wrote:Dude had a knife. Dont police have some hand to hand combat skills? Fuck

If the dude has a knife, it's not hand to hand is it?

Of course it is. If your skills are up to par (which as a cop i hope they are) they disarming a person with a knife shouldnt be hard at all.

Front stomp kick from a distance then a crashing technique..move to elbow or hroat strike..rear throw..armbreaker series.

Anything. Its a knife. You should know how to handle someone with a knife .

He couldve pepper spray the guy even without needing any h2h at all.

It is not a cops responsibility to take risks like you are describing.

With that said it looked like an execution. Dude should have known that as frantic as the cop was it wasn't a good idea to be fumbling around though. You could tell the cop knew he made a serious mistake when he couldn't find a knife. It's pretty messed up that he was more concerned with covering his ass than assisting the guy he just gunned down.

Ct. Rockula wrote:Dude had a knife. Dont police have some hand to hand combat skills? Fuck

If the dude has a knife, it's not hand to hand is it?

Of course it is. If your skills are up to par (which as a cop i hope they are) they disarming a person with a knife shouldnt be hard at all.

Front stomp kick from a distance then a crashing technique..move to elbow or hroat strike..rear throw..armbreaker series.

Anything. Its a knife. You should know how to handle someone with a knife .

He couldve pepper spray the guy even without needing any h2h at all.

It is not a cops responsibility to take risks like you are describing.

With that said it looked like an execution. Dude should have known that as frantic as the cop was it wasn't a good idea to be fumbling around though. You could tell the cop knew he made a serious mistake when he couldn't find a knife. It's pretty messed up that he was more concerned with covering his ass than assisting the guy he just gunned down.

Ct. Rockula wrote:Dude had a knife. Dont police have some hand to hand combat skills? Fuck

If the dude has a knife, it's not hand to hand is it?

Of course it is. If your skills are up to par (which as a cop i hope they are) they disarming a person with a knife shouldnt be hard at all.

Front stomp kick from a distance then a crashing technique..move to elbow or hroat strike..rear throw..armbreaker series.

Anything. Its a knife. You should know how to handle someone with a knife .

He couldve pepper spray the guy even without needing any h2h at all.

If either person is using a weapon it is, by definition, no longer hand to hand.

If you look into the subject a little from a real world perspective you will find that it is far from "not hard at all" to disarm a person with a knife.

The gentleman in the photo is a police officer and, I believe, a well trained use of force instructor who went hands on with a guy with a knife while wearing body armour. Inside it's effective range, a knife is up to 3x as lethal and much more effective than a handgun.

If you ever need to "disarm" somebody with a knife who intends to do you harm, I highly recommend that you shoot them first, if at all possible.

I have no opinion regarding the specific incident in the video. I lack the necessary information to form one.

Edit: I see the photo was removed. In retrospect it was pretty graphic.

Ct. Rockula wrote:Dude had a knife. Dont police have some hand to hand combat skills? Fuck

If the dude has a knife, it's not hand to hand is it?

Of course it is. If your skills are up to par (which as a cop i hope they are) they disarming a person with a knife shouldnt be hard at all.

Front stomp kick from a distance then a crashing technique..move to elbow or hroat strike..rear throw..armbreaker series.

Anything. Its a knife. You should know how to handle someone with a knife .

He couldve pepper spray the guy even without needing any h2h at all.

It is not a cops responsibility to take risks like you are describing.

With that said it looked like an execution. Dude should have known that as frantic as the cop was it wasn't a good idea to be fumbling around though. You could tell the cop knew he made a serious mistake when he couldn't find a knife. It's pretty messed up that he was more concerned with covering his ass than assisting the guy he just gunned down.

Soooo

A cop can only go from "hey stop" to putting holes in people?

No in between?

No, I didn't sat that. The cop was trigger happy but the other guy was a dumbass for fumbling around like he was trying to get a weapon out. He is a parole but doesn't have enough street smarts to know that acting like you are pulling a weapon will get your ass shot? Sounds like he was destined for a short life.